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Webster 1913 Edition


Frosted

Frost′ed

,
Adj.
1.
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten;
as, a
frosted
cake;
frosted
donuts
.
Frosted
work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work.
Knight.

Webster 1828 Edition


Frosted

FROST'ED

, pp.
1.
Covered with a composition like white frost.
2.
a. Having hair changed to a gray or white color, as if covered with hoar-frost; as a head frosted by age.

Definition 2024


frosted

frosted

English

Adjective

frosted (comparative more frosted, superlative most frosted)

  1. Having frost present; frosty
    Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
  2. Appearing to have frost
    She installed frosted windows since there is a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
  3. Damaged by frost.
    Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
  4. (slang) Extremely intoxicated.
    I am so frosted now that I drank that 12 pack.

Noun

frosted (plural frosteds)

  1. A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.
    • 1947, Geoffrey Hellman, How to Disappear for an Hour (page 266)
      Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought []
    • 1957, Dorothy Erskine, ‎Patrick Dennis, The Pink Hotel (page 49)
      They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.
    • 1970, CSA Super Markets (volume 46, page 106)
      Opening with standard flavors and moving quickly to grape, raspberry, blueberry, cinnamon, apple and the frosteds, the variety is putting many chains in a one-out-for-every-one-in frame of mind.

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